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July 2012

07/30/2012

Today I am going to share a card we did at my class, and I also swapped some of these little birdies at convention. When I opened the new catalog one of the first sets I thought I would have to buy was the branch. I also fell in love with the new bird set - It is fun to have some new birds to use with our punch. The DSP on this card is the new polka dots DSP - which I have been using on everything! I wish we had the new polka dot paper in every color - it is so fun to work with and looks great on everything! It is kind of funny how much this card resembles my watermark - which was designed by Michelle Laycock. I didn't ask her to do a bird on a branch, she just picked out something she thought I would like based on the collage design on my blog header and I love what she came up with!

07/28/2012

Here is a card I designed using the Reason To Smile stamp set that you can get this month only - for $5.00 with a $50.00 order! I love the flowers in this set and wanted to do a pretty simple card, but add some paper piercing to it. I hope you like it!

*All stamped images are copyright of Stampin' Up! 1990-2011. These samples are original designs by Connie Tumm. They are shared for personal non-commercial use and inspiration only. If you are a Stampin'Up! demonstrator and you use my desgins for inspiration - please link back to the original design if you are posting on the internet

07/21/2012

It's my last night in Salt Lake City and we have had a fantastic time at convention. I can't wait to get home and back to my family and my stamping friends! Here is a link to a fanstic video from convention - which really shares the excitement and ethusiasm of being around the Stampin'Up! Employees!

07/19/2012

These are the little notebooks I made for the girls in my downline who are at convention. A few weeks ago I got a Zutter Binding Machine and boy is that fun! I made the notebooks with the Festival of Prints DSP stack from the Holiday Mini Catalog. The books are the same size as the paper stack, which made it really easy. The girls can use these for notes while they are at convention or they could make a convention "smash book" and use it for notes, mementos, autographs and then when they get home they can add some photos and their swap card samples. The saying on the front of the book is a download from MDS!

*All stamped images are copyright of Stampin' Up! 1990-2011. These samples are original designs by Connie Tumm. They are shared for personal non-commercial use and inspiration only. If you are a Stampin'Up! demonstrator and you use my desgins for inspiration - please link back to the original design if you are posting on the internet

07/18/2012

I want to thank all of you for your sweet notes and posts about my Summer Smooches Sneakers that I submitted for my Artisan Application. Today I am going to share my other 3D item from the application. This is seriously one of my favorite collages I have ever done - the colors are so pretty and it really feels like summer. Enjoy!

*All stamped images are copyright of Stampin' Up! 1990-2011. These samples are original designs by Connie Tumm. They are shared for personal non-commercial use and inspiration only. If you are a Stampin'Up! demonstrator and you use my desgins for inspiration - please link back to the original design if you are posting on the internet

07/17/2012

I hope I didn't scare you with my post title! My final convention swap was a fun fold/cards that move swap - and they are supposed to be a WOW! I sure hope this meets the requirements! This is a fun card that I found on pinterest, that was made by Heather Summers (thanks for sharing!) Here is the link back to the original:

When I first made the card - I thought it would be a really fun Halloween card because when you open it - the box kind of resembles a coffin. It will be fun to find some fairly flat treats to hide in the box and if I would have had more time I would have stamped some of the little frankensteins and witches to go inside the box too, but this is really about providing a fun fold. I used the Ghoulish Googlies Designer Kit on this card, and let me tell you, those googlies are really fun!! Here's the card!

*All stamped images are copyright of Stampin' Up! 1990-2011. These samples are original designs by Connie Tumm. They are shared for personal non-commercial use and inspiration only. If you are a Stampin'Up! demonstrator and you use my desgins for inspiration - please link back to the original design if you are posting on the internet

07/16/2012

I was in Hobby Lobby a couple of days ago and I was surprised to see that they have almost all of their Christmas stuff out in the store already. Wow!! I guess this really is Christmas in July!

Each summer my upline Susan Gardner and I host an event called conventional. We started this quite a few years ago - for all of our downline members who don't get the opportunity to attend convention. It is a great couple of days of stamping and if you live in the Milwaukee/Chicago area and are a demonstrator who would be intererested in learning about this event, please send me an email! This year our theme will be Christmas/Holiday stamping, so we signed up for a Holiday card swap at convention with hopes to get some great Holiday samples! I chose the stamp set called No Peeking and I have already had a few customers order this set so I guess I am not the only one who liked it!

Here's my first Christmas card of the season!

*All stamped images are copyright of Stampin' Up! 1990-2011. These samples are original designs by Connie Tumm. They are shared for personal non-commercial use and inspiration only. If you are a Stampin'Up! demonstrator and you use my desgins for inspiration - please link back to the original design if you are posting on the internet

Today I am going to share another swap that I will be taking to convention - for one of the organized swaps I signed up for. I am excited to do a few organized swaps because you get full cards instead of card fronts. I signed up for three different organized swaps, here is the first one!

This is a card I did for the swap with a group of demonstrators on Facebook. We had to use a new stamp set for this swap. I think this is my favorite of all of my swaps - I love this little owl and I was excited to use the new woodgrain embossing folder!

*All stamped images are copyright of Stampin' Up! 1990-2011. These samples are original designs by Connie Tumm. They are shared for personal non-commercial use and inspiration only. If you are a Stampin'Up! demonstrator and you use my desgins for inspiration - please link back to the original design if you are posting on the internet

07/15/2012

I am busy putting the finishing touches on some of my swaps for convention - so today and tomorrow I will share the cards I made. These first three cards are made with the Moving Forward stamp set, which is our Ronald McDonald set this year. I love this set because you can make the same card design with all three big stamps in the set and they all turn out so cute! I also combined the new set called A Fitting Occasion - which has lots of great words in a circle, and cute things to put in the center! I hope you enjoy my cards and maybe if we meet at convention you will get one!

*All stamped images are copyright of Stampin' Up! 1990-2011. These samples are original designs by Connie Tumm. They are shared for personal non-commercial use and inspiration only. If you are a Stampin'Up! demonstrator and you use my desgins for inspiration - please link back to the original design if you are posting on the internet